Limelight

Four of the Philippines’ most popular bands are rocking select shopping malls in Metro Manila as the featured acts of the second edition of the Sync Sessions, which its organizer said is offering “an audio-digital crossover experience” that has musicians combining “good music and cutting-edge technology using Apple devices.”

Review by Lindsey Bahr / The Associated Press The world of Nancy Meyers sure is beautiful. But her studied production design and dreamy interiors have become such a focal point that they’ve almost eclipsed her storytelling. It marginalizes what she does, and how she has, from The Parent Trap to It’s Complicated, created her own lovely and implausible cottage industry …

A month after it won first prize in the Full-length Play in Filipino category at this year’s Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, Kanakan-Balintagos’ Mga Buhay na Apoy will open at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) on October 2 as Tanghalang Pilipino’s (TP) second offering for its 29th season.

Film lovers can now watch award-winning films from past editions of the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival for free until April 2016 as part of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ (CCP) Arthouse Cinema program, the cultural institution announced recently.

By Alvin I. Dacanay Last week was a good one for Philippine independent films and their admirers. For one, prize-winning director Brillante Ma. Mendoza’s latest film, Taklub (Trap), started its run at cineplexes last Wednesday, after serving as the opening film at the 20th French Film Festival in June and at the 11th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival in August.

By Lynn Elber and Frazier Moore / The Associated Press Emmy will dispense her favors on Sunday night (Monday morning in Manila), when the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards airs at 8 p.m. (New York time) In the meantime, television’s biggest guessing game moves into high gear, with its players including two sure-of-themselves Associated Press television critics. Will Modern Family continue its …

The winners in the Full-length Documentary and Short Fiction Feature categories of the Sineng Pambansa Climate Change Scriptwriting Contest were awarded the certificates and the cash prizes promised to them at the Film Development Council of the Philippines’ (FDCP) headquarters on September 17.

After showcasing Jesse Lucas and his songs late last month, the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) is set to train the spotlight on prize-winning composer-lyricist-musical director Vincent A. de Jesus as its second featured artist in the Triple Threats: The Composers concert series at its Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theater) on September 24 at 8 p.m. 

Imagine this: A mysterious woman is discovered inside a gray duffel bag in New York City’s famous Times Square. She is totally naked, save for hundreds of intricate tattoos. More strangely, she doesn’t remember who she is or how she got there. 

Review by Alvin I. Dacanay On paper, the idea was intriguing: a multiracial group of United Kingdom-based theater actors is touring the world and performing Hamlet—one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays, and certainly his most oft-quoted—as close as to how it was staged at The Globe Theatre during his time. No microphones and fancy lighting. No elaborate costumes and sets. …